Brett Haggard and Christo van Gemert are joined by Charlie Fripp this week for shallow dip into this week’s tech news. Topics discussed include Google Glass’s new frames and support for prescription lenses, Windows XP on ATMs, Telkom’s IP Connect cost cut, Google’s plan

Limited trading has begun in Vodacom’s five-year-old, R7,5bn black economic empowerment scheme, YeboYethu, the mobile telecommunications operator said on Monday. Over 100 000 people have a stake in Vodacom South Africa through the scheme. Those shareholders

Spare a thought for Shameel Joosub and Zunaid Bulbulia. The Vodacom and MTN chief executives must feel like they’re being unfairly picked on for running successful, profitable businesses. This week, telecommunications industry regulator Icasa published final regulations that will

A decade ago, fierce battles were fought to get a number of Africa’s state-owned telecommunications operators into private hands and to strip them of their monopoly privileges. This happened in all but two of what are now sub-Saharan Africa’s most successful economies. The real laggards are

Smart identity cards, to replace the green, barcoded identity books would be rolled out to first-time applicants and pensioners from Saturday, the department of home affairs said. “The roll-out of the smart ID cards to all eligible South Africans will take a few years and the department

National treasury is moving ahead with plans to levy value-added tax on digital goods such as music downloads and digital books, with the controversial new rules set to come into effect on 1 April. Government this week published electronic services regulations for public comment. This follows

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Kalahari.com, the e-retailer in the Naspers stable, is introducing a 7-inch Android tablet to complement its number-one selling product, the Gobii e-reader. The Gobii 7″ WiFi Touch Tablet is a 7-inch colour LCD e-reader that plays music and movies. It’s a Wi-Fi-only tablet that doubles as an e-reader

Cell C employees began moving into the company’s sprawling new campus, built at the confluence of the N1 and N3 freeways in Woodmead, near Midrand, at the end of last year. The 50 000sq m facility includes a main head office facility, a customer service centre, a new national network

Times Media Group has acquired a controlling 60% stake in a KwaZulu-Natal based radio station called Vuma FM. The acquisition comes just a month after it snapped up 65% of Mpumalanga station Mpower FM. The deal is worth R25,6m and Times Media has agreed to provide additional working capital to Vuma